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2019 Global Health Security Index
2019 Global Health Security Index (Nuclear Threat Initiative, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and The Economist Intelligence Unit, Oct 2019, 316p) “Intended as a key resource in the face...
A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US
A National Plan to Enable Comprehensive COVID-19 Case Finding and Contact Tracing in the US (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, April 10, 2020, 15p) In order to save lives,...
BBVA Foundation
BBVA Foundation (2008; Madrid; 18 staff; fbbva.es) An organization that "expresses the corporate social responsibility of the BBVA Group, in particular, its commitment to the advancement of the societies where...
Brundtland, Gro Harlem
Gro Harlem Brundtland (b.1939) is a physician who trained in Norway, and became interested in public health and environmental issues, as well as women’s rights. She served as Norwegian Minister...
Caldicott, Helen
Helen Caldicott, M.D. (b.1938) is an Australian physician and anti-nuclear advocate. She is Founding President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute (now Beyond Nuclear), President of the Helen Caldicott Foundation...
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (1994; Toronto; cape.ca) Mission: protect human health by protecting the planet, by bringing health expertise to environmental issues in Canada in five campaigns:...
Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health, Health, Health and Climate, Health and Environment, Physicians’ Groups, Pollution and Health, Toxic Chemicals
Carter Center
Carter Center (1982, Atlanta GA; ~1,500 staff; cartercenter.org) Founded by former US President Jimmy Carter and his wife, they aim to “Wage Peace, Fight Disease, Build Hope.” It works in...
Center for a Livable Future
Center for a Livable Future (2003; Baltimore; 34 staff; clf.jhsph.edu) Operates out of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, from the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. It...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (1946, Atlanta GA; 15,000 staff; www.cdc.gov) CDC seeks to “protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases...
Biological Threats, Biosecurity, Disease Hotspots, Disease prevention, Existential Risks, Existential Threats, Food Security, Food Studies, Food System, Health, Health and Climate, Health and Environment, Health Security
Centre for Digital Health Interventions
Centre for Digital Health Interventions(Zurich; 40 staff; c4dhi.org) A joint initiative "of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich, the Future Health Technologies Programme at the Singapore-ETH...
Child Family Health International
Child Family Health International (1992; San Francisco; 39 staff; www.cfhi.org) Is a UN-recognized non-profit non-governmental organization providing global health education programs for health science students and institutions. It fosters reciprocal partnerships...
Climate Interactive
Climate interactive (2010; Washington, DC; climateinteractive.org) Climate interactive is based on a long tradition of system dynamics modeling; their "simulations and insights help people see connections, play out scenarios, and...
Council on Foreign Relations
Council on Foreign Relations (1921, New York; ~225 staff; 4,900+ Members; cfr.org) CFR is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its...
Defense, Economics Rethinking, Energy and Environment, Global Security, Health, Human Rights, International Relations, Security
Duke Global Health Innovation Center
Duke Global Health Innovation Center(2016; Durham, NC; 17 staff; dukeghic.org) A research center dedicated "to study and support the scaling and adaptation of innovations and related policy reforms to address...
Frontline AIDS
Frontline AIDS (1993; Hove, United Kingdom; 12 staff; frontlineaids.org) A global partnership of governmental and non-governmental organizations supporting "community organizations which promote HIV/AIDS issues in developing countries." Work areas: Coronavirus...
Global Air pollution and Health – Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG)
Global Air pollution and Health - Technical Advisory Group (GAPH-TAG)(2001; 82 Staff; who.int) It was convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) to act as an "advisory body to WHO...
Global Ecological Integrity Group
Global Ecological Integrity Group (1992; Toronto; 5 staff; www.globalecointegrity.net) Is a network of over 250 scholars worldwide from ”diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics, and...
Global Food Initiative
Global Food Initiative (2014; Univ of California; ucop.edu/global-food-initiative) It works to address the need to "sustainably and nutritiously feed a world population expected to reach eight billion by 2025"; aligning...
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (2002; Geneva; theglobalfund.org) The "international financing and partnership organization" works to "attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of...
Global Health Justice Partnership
Global Health Justice Partnership(2013; New Haven, CT; 6 staff; law.yale.edu) A program tackleling "contemporary problems at the interface of global health, human rights, and social justice. The GHJP is pioneering...